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| Obama warns China on cyber spying ahead of Xi visit | |  By Roberta Rampton and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for an international framework to prevent the Internet from being "weaponised" as a tool of national aggression, while holding out the prospect of a forceful U.S. response to China over hacking attacks. With Chinese President Xi Jinping set to visit Washington next week, Obama told a group of company chief executives that cybersecurity would be a major focus in his talks with Xi, a topic that has become a point of friction in U.S.-Chinese relations. A person briefed on the White House's thinking said on Tuesday the United States does not plan to impose sanctions on Chinese entities for economic cyber attacks ahead of Xi's visit to avoid what would be seen as a diplomatic disaster.
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| Microsoft discriminated against women in pay, promotions - U.S. lawsuit | |  Microsoft Corp on Wednesday was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. court claiming its policy of ranking employees to determine pay and promotions led to discrimination against women. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Seattle, Washington by former technician Katherine Moussouris, who claims she was passed over for promotions given to less-qualified men and was told supervisors did not like her "manner or style." Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft gives employees numerical rankings based on performance evaluations, according to the lawsuit, and routinely gave female workers lower ratings based on subjective criteria. "Microsoft systematically undervalues the efforts and achievements of its female technical employees," said Adam Klein of well-known employment law firm Outten & Golden in New York, one of the firms representing Moussouris.
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| Japan opposition tries to halt vote on contentious security bills | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese opposition lawmakers were battling on Thursday to prevent a vote on security bills that could allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda to ease the limits of the pacifist constitution. The policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked huge public protests and sharply eroded popular support for the premier. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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| Rapper Rick Ross loses 'Everyday I'm hustlin'' copyright claim | |  By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rapper Rick Ross cannot copyright the words "Everyday I'm hustlin'," a U.S. judge has ruled, putting an end to his claim against music group LMFAO for selling T-shirts with the similar catch-phrase "Everyday I'm shufflin'." In a ruling released on Tuesday in Miami federal court, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said Ross's slogan, a prominent part of his 2006 debut hit "Hustlin'," is a short expression that courts have repeatedly said cannot be copyrighted. Williams' order puts a dent in a copyright infringement lawsuit that Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, filed against LMFAO in 2013. Ross alleged the Los Angeles-based electropop duo, made up of Stefan Gordy and Skyler Gordy, copied "Hustlin'" for their own 2010 chart-topping "Party Rock Anthem," which contains the lyric "Everyday I'm shufflin'." The hip hop star said LMFAO's song was "an obvious attempt to capitalise on the fame and success of Hustlin'." He also sued Kia Motors for using "Party Rock Anthem" in an advertising campaign.
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| GM to pay $900 million, settle U.S. criminal case over ignition switches - sources | |  By David Ingram, Nate Raymond and Joseph White NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co has agreed to pay $900 million and sign a deferred-prosecution agreement to end a U.S. government investigation into its handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to 124 deaths, two sources told Reuters. The deal means GM will be charged criminally with hiding the defect from regulators and in the process defrauding consumers, but the case will be put on hold while GM fulfills terms of the deal, one source said. The company's expected $900 million payment, confirmed by a second source, is less than the $1.2 billion that Toyota Motor Corp paid to resolve a similar case.
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| First Irish gay marriages due this year as challenge defeated | |  Gay couples in Ireland should be able to marry before the end of the year after the country's Supreme Court refused to allow an appeal following an unsuccessful legal challenge to May's landmark same-sex marriage referendum. Ireland became the first country to adopt gay marriage via a popular vote, with the backing of 62 percent of voters, signalling a major change in attitudes in what was once a strongly Catholic and socially conservative society.
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| Amnesty urges Cameroon to investigate abuses in Boko Haram fight | | | Amnesty International urged Cameroon on Wednesday to investigate the death of 25 prisoners and disappearance of 130 people after raids by security forces, raising concern about possible abuses arising from a crackdown on Islamist Boko Haram militants. Amnesty said that the Nigerian insurgent group had committed war crimes in neighbouring northern Cameroon by having killed at least 380 civilians since the start of last year. In one attack in October, Boko Haram shot or slit the throats of at least 30 people in the border town of Ambchide, Amnesty said. |
| UK urges student body not to oppose anti-radicalisation reforms | | | By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain urged the National Union of Students on Thursday not to undermine government efforts to prevent young Britons being radicalised on university campuses, criticising the body's opposition to new regulations against extremism. Earlier this year the high-profile Islamic State militant known as 'Jihadi John' was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, a graduate of the University of Westminster. "All public institutions have a role to play in rooting out and challenging extremism," Prime Minister David Cameron said ahead of the first meeting of an anti-extremism task force, which he was due to chair later on Thursday. |
| U.S. SEC drops Onyx insider trading lawsuit against Dubai men | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit accusing two Dubai men of insider trading in Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc while the cancer drugmaker was mulling a takeover bid by Amgen Inc . U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan granted the SEC's request to end its two-year-old case against Dhia Jafar and Omar Nabulsi without prejudice, and lift a $2.55 million asset freeze on two accounts they held at Citigroup. The SEC did not explain why it wanted the dismissal, which it requested in a Tuesday court filing. |
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